Verse 1 A D G If you're wondering how we landed here A D G You were watching the waves and drinking beer A D Bm You don't even remember standing up Em Truly, I don't either Verse 2 A D G At some point you waded to your waist A D G As you slipped further out the stakes were raised A D Bm Finally you were surrounded, and for what? Em A water darker and deeper Chorus 1 G A In 1997 I became myself D G And 20 minutes later I began to melt G A The cycle I get used to in the course of time D G The shifting definitions that comprise a life G A D The people I become and the people I don't recognize Verse 3 A D G If you're wondering who arranged the mess A D G Some exceptions were made to grant, I guess A D Bm While we all let the peak of the parade Em The underbelly went lethal Chorus 2 G A In 2007 tried to build a bridge D G Between how I was living and how I could live G A I tricked myself into thinking I'd done enough D G Once I got across I didn't blow it up G A D Yeah, I closed some lanes, all it really takes is one Bridge Em F#m G Opening to tear apart all your works D Em F#m G So fine you are, delicate un-achieve all your half-philosophy D Em F#m G Style points, blind belief a whirling perpetuity D Em F#m G The ocean warm that knows you did the same before Chorus 3 G A So in 2017 we did away with facts D G All negotiation with a battle axe G A The gruesome ideology is center shame D G American identity was laid to waste G We're backlit and exposed A Bm D Em Sugar stripped and it's made clean Outro G The people I become A D The people I can't replicate
